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Validity of Off-the-Shelf Automatic Speech Recognition for Assessing Speech Intelligibility and Speech Severity in Speakers with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Gutz, Sarah E.; Stipancic, Kaila L.; Yunusova, Yana; Berry, James D.; Green, Jordan R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: There is increasing interest in using automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems to evaluate impairment severity or speech intelligibility in speakers with dysarthria. We assessed the clinical validity of one currently available off-the-shelf (OTS) ASR system (i.e., a Google Cloud ASR API) for indexing sentence-level speech…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Speech Impairments, Intelligibility, Speech Communication
"You Say Severe, I Say Mild": Toward an Empirical Classification of Dysarthria Severity
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Stipancic, Kaila L.; Palmer, Kira M.; Rowe, Hannah P.; Yunusova, Yana; Berry, James D.; Green, Jordan R. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to create an empirical classification system for speech severity in patients with dysarthria secondary to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by exploring the reliability and validity of speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') ratings of dysarthric speech. Method: Ten SLPs listened to speech samples from…
Descriptors: Severity (of Disability), Classification, Neurological Impairments, Speech Language Pathology